Saturday, July 30, 2011

Waterbury, Conn. – Naugatuck Valley Community College and local comic book store Legends of Superheroes will co-host the second annual Brass City Comic Convention from 10 am – 3 pm on Sunday, July 31 in the NVCC Ruth Ann Leever Atrium. Admission is $.99 and free for kids under age 10 who are accompanied by an adult, with proceeds to benefit Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Sorry I have not updated in a while, still trying to dig myself out of a hole leftover from going on vacation. (it was worth it though!) I've been finishing up Junkfoods and I just started a New Comic Job! Up til now I've been doing the prework for it, but a lucky turn of events (Wally coming to the office to approve the layouts) I was able to start the pages today!

I was invited to the Greater Hartford Arts Council volunteer recognition gathering this past week too. It was at the uber fancy, Society Room in Hartford CT. I was accompanied by two fellow Granby Artists AKA "The Party Girls". One was Wendy Van Welie, owner of Indigo Images and one was potter extraordinaire, Claudia Karimi.

Aside from that, there was our unofficial 24 Hour comic challenge that I was able to complete (but this one seemed much harder) and that silly movie that was just released that I had to see a few times!

So...I'm sure there's a Junkfood post I can put up tomorrow and I can guarantee there's going to be some "connectivity" updates too. I'll see you soon!

Friday, July 8, 2011

Knocked off some Junkfoods and hope to finish this piece for the Yankee Flyer today before class starts. I'm going to try to get better at updating the blog when the Junkfoods get published - I promise!

Once class is over, off to Connecticon to catch up with Steve, Rachael and Lonnie!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Your job is not the easiest to return to after you return from vacation, right? Well, the good thing was I was productive. With the Comic Book Artists Guild meeting tomorrow, Connecticon, a Granby Artists Association board meeting and our Unofficial 24 Hour Comic Challenge all coming up...things will be busy, busy, busy!

Matt C Ryan is a freelance cartoonist and comic book artist whose work spans from the comics industry to package design and advertising.

Since first being published with a pinup in an issue of Batton Lash's "Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre" from Exhibit A Press, Matt has hit the ground running. He is creator and artist on the comic, BIGGER, published by Free Lunch Comics. Additional stories, characters, and sequential art appear in other titles from Free Lunch Comics as well as numerous other comics from Crazy Mama Studios, Guild Works Productions, Radbu Productions, and Blindwolf Studios. His larger body of work includes cartoons for a number of magazine ads and package and character designs for such clients as Dornenburg Design and Mark Lewis Creative Arts.

Matt has already been honored and recognized by a number of professional organizations. Matt was a member of the Farmington Valley Arts Center faculty for seven years and was named Master Teaching Artist by the Greater Hartford Arts Council. Shortly after joining the Comic Book Artists Guild, he was nominated head of the Connecticut branch and held that position until he stepped down in 2008. He remained a member until early 2009. In April 2008 at the New York ComicCon, he received the first-ever CAG award for production excellence. At the 2009 New York Comic Con CAG Awards, Matt received the Best Cartoonist and Best Workshop awards. Also, he was juried into the Granby Artists Association, a network of fine artists that partake in galleries, fundraisers, and mentoring activities. In 2011, he received the honors of President of the Granby Artists Association and the Head of the New England Chapter of the Comic Book Artists Guild.

Matt is happily married to the love of his life, Leigh Ann and they are parents to their beautiful girls, Ava and Alaina.